{"id":8204,"date":"2012-03-23T08:20:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2012-03-23T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T06:30:21","slug":"hacker-group-crashes-websites-for-pope-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/8204\/hacker-group-crashes-websites-for-pope-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker group crashes websites for Pope visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker group Anonymous in Mexico has crashed at least two of the websites for Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s upcoming visit to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican Episcopal Conference says its web page on the papal visit has been blocked by &#8220;a cyber attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conference spokesman Samuel Najera says the Internet attacks show intolerance and have hurt logistics efforts for the visit.<\/p>\n<p>The Anonymous IberoAmerica website claimed responsibility for attacking that page Thursday as well as the website of the government of Guanajuato state, where the pope will visit starting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous Mexico says in a video posted on social media sites that the pope&#8217;s visit is meant to support the conservative National Action Party in the July 1 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker group Anonymous in Mexico has crashed at least two of the websites for Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s upcoming visit to Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,1717,583],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-anonymous","tag-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8216,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}